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Architect, editor in chief at World-Architects, architectural tour guide, author of 7 books including "Buildings in Print," and I have a weekly newsletter about architecture books: https://archidose.substack.com/
This week in A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books newsletter is "Thirtysix Views of Inverted Portal," by photographer James Florio, published by MAS Context. The 3-volume publication features photographs of Ensamble Studio's "Inverted Portal" at Tippet Rise. archidose.substack.com/p/7-winters-...
23.02.2026 20:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This week in A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books is Rafael Herrin-Ferri’s latest book, "All the Queens Gardens: Everyday Landscaping in New York’s Largest and Most Diverse Borough," recently published by Jovis: archidose.substack.com/p/form-follo...
17.02.2026 15:49 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
"We the Bacteria: Notes Toward Biotic Architecture," written by Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley and published by Lars Müller Publishers, is atop my newsletter this week: archidose.substack.com/p/the-future...
09.02.2026 16:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This week my A Weekly Dose of Architecture features "An Urban Odyssey: A Critic’s Search for the Soul of Cities and Self," the 2024 autobiography by Sam Hall Kaplan, who served as critic of architecture and urbanism at the Los Angeles Times for a dozen years: archidose.substack.com/p/the-life-o...
02.02.2026 16:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This week my A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books newsletter features "Connective Urbanism – New York" by KPF, published by KPF: archidose.substack.com/p/kpf-at-50
26.01.2026 16:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This week on A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books is "MAKI OPUS," celebrating the 60th anniversary of Maki and Associates; published by @thamesandhudson.bsky.social
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Looks like you basically had the place to yourself. See other people there during your visit? Know if this portion of the Biennale is getting traffic?
15.01.2026 17:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
This week in my book newsletter is "Public Spaces, NY," a sequel to MOS's "Vacant Spaces NY," which is at the bottom of the newsletter: archidose.substack.com/p/meet-me-at...
12.01.2026 16:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The first post of 2026 in my A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books newsletter features C. G. Beck's "The Labor of Architecture: Creativity, Design, and the Building of a New Class Consciousness," published by Monthly Review Press: archidose.substack.com/p/architectu...
05.01.2026 16:15 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Great bibliography on American architecture of the past 250 years compiled by @hawthorne.bsky.social.
Perfect for folks like me with a good background in architectural history but who are not specialists in American #architecture. #USA250 #USsemiquincentennial
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My last newsletter post of 2025 lists my top 10 from the nearly 50 books featured in it over the course of the year: archidose.substack.com/p/favorite-a...
16.12.2025 11:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
2 publications on reuse are in my newsletter this week: "Harvard Design Magazine No. 53: Reuse and Repair," edited by Jeanne Gang and Lizabeth Cohen; and "Reuse of Architectural Components" by Bailey Bestul:
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This week in my newsletter is "Shelter Cookbook," edited by Leopold Banchini and Lukas Feireiss, with photographs by Dylan Perrenoud and an interview with Lloyd Kahn: archidose.substack.com/p/cooking-up...
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I happened to walk along Wall Street about a week ago and saw them hoisting the materials inside for the renovated lobby and POPS by KPF.
26.11.2025 18:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Posting this only because of the photo they put atop the article: the POPS at 60 Wall Street designed by Kevin Roche that was recently demolished. Odd choice, I think.
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Wanna buy an architecture-book lover a gift that's not an architecture book? Here are some suggestions I cobbled together: archidose.substack.com/p/gifts-for-...
26.11.2025 16:30 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Book of the Week in my newsletter is "Design for Construction: Tectonic Imagination in Contemporary Architecture" by Eric Höweler, published by @routledgebooks.bsky.social:
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I just learned the the Shubow-Ratti debate never happened but a panel discussion, "Classicism Now," with Justin Shubow, @katewagner.wehwalt.net and @edwinheathcote.bsky.social, moderated by Ratti, will be taking place this Saturday (5pm CET). Livestream via Ratti IG: www.instagram.com/crassociati/
20.11.2025 14:32 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
The book in my newsletter this week is "Renaissance: A New Museum for Princeton" by James Christen Steward, with contributions by Paul Goldberger, Ron McCoy, and Mark Stevens: archidose.substack.com/p/a-princeto...
17.11.2025 16:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0David Halle and Elisabeth Tiso's "New York's New Edge: Contemporary Art, the High Line, and Urban Megaprojects on the Far West Side," pictured, is great. Its balance of sociology, history, etc., plus its clarity of writing, has made it one of the most helpful books in my understanding of 21C NYC.
04.11.2025 15:58 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And important to Trump that the bathroom he renovated overlooks the future ballroom.
(Also note that the photo was taken before the East Wing demolition but posted after.)
My newsletter this week features "Archigram: The Magazine," the new facsimile edition of all nine and a half issues of Archigram, originally printed between 1961 and 1974:
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Not at all surprising to hear this news.
I wouldn't put it past Trump to put McCrery back on the commission so the architect can approve his own design for the ballroom.
Just saw it described as "The much-anticipated final volume in architect Robert A.M. Stern’s critically acclaimed New York series" on the Phaidon website. You had me second-guessing myself for a minute, @christinecipriani.bsky.social : )
27.10.2025 17:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0That said, I guess the co-authors could continue the series in another 15 or 20 years...
27.10.2025 17:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Actually I'm not 100% that it's *the* last, but I think it's safe to assume its *his* last. He actually told Archpaper back in 2017, "I’m also working with Jake Tilove and David Fishman on my New York 2020 book, which I swore I would never do, but here I am." That makes 2020 something of a bonus.
27.10.2025 17:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The sixth and final installment in Robert A.M. Stern's magisterial New York series is out this week, so of course "New York 2020: Architecture and Urbanism at the Beginning of a New Century" is Book of the Week in A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books: archidose.substack.com/p/20-years-o...
27.10.2025 16:35 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
Project on architect's website: www.machado-silvetti.com/princeton-pa...
27.10.2025 14:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Google Street View screenshot of parking garage at Princeton University, 2019
Google Street View screenshot of parking garage at Princeton University, 2023, with solar panels added at the top level.
Solar panels are great and all, and putting them on the roof of a parking garage makes perfect sense, but maybe those added to the Princeton University garage designed by Machado and Silvetti in the 90s could have been respectful of the original cornice expression—now lost beneath dark roof.
27.10.2025 14:42 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
